MEPIS, one of the more popular Debian-derived distributions, may be moving in a new direction soon. MEPIS founder Warren Woodford is considering building future MEPIS releases from Ubuntu sources rather than from Debian. SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3, which is scheduled for release today, has been quite a challenge to build, according to Woodford. "It's taking up all my time, fighting the Etch pool... We've had a lot of trouble, because the Debian community has become so active, it's been difficult to get this out, so I'm looking at alternatives to getting out stable releases."

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I asked the staff a few weeks ago to remove my account, and they haven't even done so. Do I have to formally serve a subpeona on you guys to make yo do it? I can't stand this site anymore, and I can't stand the inability of the staff to ensure that things are done right.